Hybrid event (presential / zoom)

Venue : Room Pierre Hassner (S1), second floor, 28 rue des Saints-Pères 75007, Paris

Organised as part of the seminar Nuclear Knowledges

Speaker: 
Juha Vuori, University of Turku

Discussants: 
Nicola Leveringhaus,King’s College London
Cameron Hunter, University of Copenhagen

Abstract :
China acquired nuclear weapons in the 1960s, yet remained critical of deterrence as a policy. Indeed, the country used a variety of other terms to describe its nuclear weapon policies. In contemporary China, both its conventional and nuclear policies are described in terms of integrated deterrence. While China’s nuclear weapon policy remains unique, its deterrence imaginary has become more in line with those of other nuclear weapon states. Juha Vuori argues that the transformation of China's deterrence imaginary is closely connected to the normalization of nuclear weapons in China and that it is part of China’s identity politics.

La présentation sera donnée en anglais, cependant les questions en français seront également les bienvenues.

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Scientifics Coordinators : Benoît Pelopidas, Sciences Po-CERI and Sterre van Buuren, Sciences Po-CERI